The Low-voltage Motors Annual Intelligence Service comprises a flagship product of the traditional IHS Low-voltage Motors Report and three market briefs. The flagship low-voltage motors report is delivered once a year, with comprehensive and thorough analysis of the global and regional markets for low-voltage motors.

This Market Brief provides a general picture of trends affecting the low-voltage motor market from sources such as the IHS Markit Industrial Automation Equipment Market Tracker, the Capital Equipment Market Tracker, and Machinery Production Market Tracker.

This report is the ninth dedicated analysis by IHS Markit on the world market for low-voltage (LV) integral horsepower (IHP) motors sold into industrial applications. The global market for LV motors includes motors of 1HP/0.75kW and above, with a voltage rating of less than or equal to 690V. This includes AC induction motors, direct current (DC) motors, and specialized motors that lie outside of efficiency class regulations.

Our second report examining telco digital transformation focuses on four technology areas: automation, which is the key to digital transformation, operator plans for using AI and ML, blockchain applications for telecom networks, and the role of open source software versus standards

Already known for the innovative capabilities that propelled its cloud and SDN/NFV ascension over the past decade, Netcracker, a wholly owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation, never rests on its laurels and keeps pushing the envelope. This time around, though, the bar was lifted very high. Netcracker has developed and launched a new cloud-based service that essentially includes everything the company has in its OSS/BSS product and services offering. Named Business Cloud, the platform leverages Netcracker’s cloud-based SDN/NFV and IT portfolio—from VNFs to orchestration, OSS, BSS, portals, and a digital marketplace—and offers the complete set as a service to whoever needs to build a cloud infrastructure to turn up new digital services. Clients, please log in to view the full content.

This Market Tracker provides accurate data and analyses—including market size, forecasts, and market trends—to help clients make better business decisions in the NFV hardware, software, and services market.

The low-voltage motor market contracted in 2016. Process industries were hit the hardest, largely due to depressed oil prices and oversupply concerns in the projects business. In 2017 the market experienced a recovery, and the process industries experienced the strongest upswing, especially the oil and gas sector. The top process industries grew at a faster rate than the top discrete industries in 2017, and this trend continued in 2018, according to the “Low Voltage Motors Report” from IHS Markit.

The survey explores service provider plans and strategies for evaluating and deploying network functions virtualization (NFV). The study identifies the drivers for this fundamental change in service provider network architecture, the development stages and deployment timing for key use cases, applications, and target network areas.